THIS IS Tamil Nadus first Human Development Report. Tamil Nadu has fared very well in human development among the states in India. It needs to be noted, however, that there are vast variations in the...

This book is a brilliant historicisation and scathing critique of many of the dominant concepts by which Indians generally, and north Indian Hindus more specifically, think and live today. Historians,...

Kashibai Kanitkar (1861?1948), was the first major woman writer in Marathi. She was largely self-taught and keenly conscious of the benefits of women?s education. She promoted this and other emancipatory...

Social & Economic Profile of India is the only book of its kind on India in Economic Geography. According to a reviewer, there are some strong GIS systems, and there are strong spatial databases. This...

Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict is an extremely timely and important publication. Fourteen interesting papers, based on intensive fieldwork in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan...

This book is meant for people interested in Indian religion, literature, history and general culture. While scholarly in its presentation and based on the most up-to-date literature, it is meant as an...

IT IS WIDELY believed that economic reforms widen inequalities in societies which are already highly unequal and the impact of economic reforms on social sectors, particularly in developing economies...